1st Dr. Visit: ULTRASOUND!!

Hello week 11! According to my "Bump" app on my phone...our little offspring is about the size of a lime. It's also time for our 1st official Dr.'s visit! Barry and I make our way over to the hospital. I do my duty: sign in, pee in a cup, and wait for our turn. Dr.'s assistant calls us in. She weighs me in at 98lbs. (gained a couple lbs...but I guess you can't really control that department!) and takes my blood pressure. All is good! Then she asks when my last PAP was. OH MY GOD. I HATE THOSE THINGS! I made sure to be clear that I didn't need one until Feb.! I thought I was going to get one anyway until she said "oh okay, then the Dr. will just give you a pelvic exam and an ultrasound." "WHEW!"

Dr. M walks in. I was so worried that he was going to be the very serious type...go in do, the job, and leave...next! This guy was different. He was really warm, made jokes, which definitely made me feel more comfortable with him. He didn't seem like he was rushing to jump to his next patient. ALTHOUGH, I did get a partial PAP, which kind of annoyed me, but I guess he has to do what he needs to do. Anyway, then we jumped into the ultrasound and within seconds we met our little lime for the 1st time, heartbeat and all! It even did a little shuffle jig for us to see. It was probably the most surreal thing I've ever seen/experienced in my entire life. It had arms and legs, and an alien shaped head, it almost looked like a little peanut. Barry and I were both really quiet, but I guess we were just speechless. All I could say was "oh my god." I looked over at Barry and he had a smile on his face. Kinda like the little smile you get when someone does an amazing magic trick in front of you and you have no idea how they did it, but all you can do is get a silly little smile and say "whaaat?! how did you do that!?" Shortly Dr. M passes us a long strip of paper which consisted of several photos of our offspring. I just passed it right along to Barry keeping my eyes on the monitor. It was so mesmerizing.

He confirmed that everything looked normal and gave us another appointment for a month later. He asked me if I had any questions, but for the life of me I couldn't think. I was so blown away by the tiny specimen floating around in my stomach. I just said "non that I could think of right now..." Then we left.

Got outside...CRAP I did have questions!!